PRESS RELEASE: Gabrielle Denae is now the first British Virgin Islands Gospel artiste to receive eight nominations and a win in the category of ‘Inspirational Recording of the Year’ at the annual Caribbean Gospel Music Marlin Awards (CGMA). CGMA celebrated […]

By Horace Mills, BVI News Online Staff Junior Minister of Trade Marlon Penn today broke a long held silence in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) parliament when he implored the government to decriminalize the use of marijuana, adding that he […]

Marlon Penn has downplayed suggestions that the National Democratic Party (NDP) government is imploding over the issue of whether the administration should now undertake extension of the runway at Terrence B Lettsome International Airport. Penn, who is the junior minister […]

Leader of the opposition Andrew Fahie has criticized Minister responsible for prison Myron Walwyn for allowing a $200,000 fence bought for Her Majesty’s Prison to be lying idle in Road Town for six years. Fahie was responding to a BVI […]

A man who reportedly beat his wife in public more than two years ago escaped direct imprisonment when he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court today, February 28. Magistrate Ayanna Baptiste-DaBreo fined Liston Graham $1,000 after noting positive reviews from a […]

A man accused of making several sexual advances, including masturbating in front his daughter who is now 12-year-old, has been granted bail in the Magistrate’s Court. The 39-year-old accused is charged with indecent assault. The child now lives with her […]

Six years after tax-payers’ money was used to buy a fence to replace the one currently at Her Majesty’s Prison, the said fence has been sitting in a Road Town parking lot because it is said to be inappropriate. The […]

While suggesting that an increasing number of young people who should be employed have been applying for public assistance, the Ministry of Health and Social Development said there is need for the territory to address the culture of ‘hand outs’. […]

A brother-sister altercation that unfolded last year has left one sibling with injuries and the other facing criminal charges. Charged with assault causing actual bodily harm is Ronni David of Fort Hill, Tortola. He pleaded guilty to the offence when […]

Digicel said it is not in a position at this time to specifically say if its staff in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) will be affected by a massive redundancy programme the telecommunications company is undertaking globally. Representatives of the […]